The Hatake Compound.
The second floor of the building where Kakashi Hatake lived.
He sat on his bed, staring blankly at what was happening on the screen.
"Obito really is alive!"
Kakashi Hatake's hand froze as he tried to take notes. His pen never touched the paper, and his expression turned utterly grim.
"I never thought you actually saw what happened that day."
Kakashi muttered under his breath.
Kakashi had heard everything Obito Uchiha said during his attempt to talk him around in the video, and he was surprised.
It also felt a little unbelievable. That loudmouthed loser who had always loved to boast was now speaking so confidently to him in the broadcast.
Could the video be wrong? Obito Uchiha, who had supposedly died saving me decades ago, actually started the Fourth Shinobi World War? And my teacher and his wife were both killed by the Nine-Tails he released?
It shattered his entire worldview.
He recalled how Obito Uchiha used to arrive late because he had helped an old lady cross the street.
Kakashi opened his mouth, but no sound came out.
His face slowly turned pale.
"Are you really still alive?"
Perhaps the best thing about this video was that it proved not all his friends were dead. Obito Uchiha was still alive.
At worst, he had just gone a little dark.
With that reminder, Kakashi suddenly remembered a name Luo Mang had mentioned as a joke: Uchiha Lolicon!
With the clues laid out and the answer in hand, tracing everything back made it all frighteningly clear.
Obito Uchiha loved Rin Nohara.
And after Rin Nohara died, Obito Uchiha fell into despair and wanted to create a world without pain, a world where Rin existed?
But Rin Nohara had died and could never grow up, so her appearance